Albion booked their place in the quarter-finals of the competition for the first time since 2003 with a 4-1 triumph over their Championship opponents at the Walkers Stadium on Tuesday night. Boss Roberto Di Matteo utilised his ranks to rotate his entire team for the tie, with not one player starting who lined up in Saturday's 2-1 victory over Fulham - a result which extended West Brom's impressive unbeaten run to seven games and left them sitting sixth in the Premier League. The likes of Simon Cox, Giles Barnes, Somen Tchoyi, Roman Bednar, Steven Reid, Graham Dorrans and Pablo Ibanez all came in to stake their claim for next Monday's trip to Blackpool. And Newton said: "That's what it's all about - competition. "Competition within the club inspires everyone to perform at their maximum and hopefully when your team is performing at their maximum you can get the results you need." The overwhelming scoreline was kind on Albion who, despite shading proceedings, came under spells of pressure from the hosts and saw the tie finely balanced at 1-1 after Nicky Shorey's own goal cancelled out Cox's delicate opener. But Conrad Logan's mistake handed Tchoyi the chance to put West Brom back into the lead and they never looked back, with Reid and Cox putting a gloss on the scoreline. Albion's change XI linked up well and played some neat football at times. And Newton added: "We work with the boys and everyone in the squad knows their jobs, we say a lot a things very repetitious on the training field so that if we do make wholesale changes, the change is seamless." Leicester boss Sven-Goran Eriksson is looking to discuss a possible loan switch with Di Matteo for Albion striker Ishmael Miller as he looks to realise the ambitious club's ultimate quest for promotion to the Premier League. But the Swede insists it is at the other end of the pitch where the Foxes must sort out their problems. "We have to start to be more ugly (in defence) - kick the ball away - you have to stand up, it's absolutely too easy to score goals against us," he bemoaned. "We could have avoided at least three of the goals. If we don't change that then we can forget about the play-offs or promotion. We have to change that very quickly. "I think we did okay, we played rather well against a Premier League team and we should be proud of that, but we can't be and that's a pity for the boys working hard out there. "We have to defend properly. We will go nowhere if we go on like this."
